Second NIC Card Problem

Hi,
Need a little help. I have installed a second NIC card in a MPC 545 computer running Solaris 8 and created or updated all the necessary files (ie., hosts, hostname.prb1, netmask, etc.)
During the boot process (which looks similar to this) I am getting the following error:
Configuring IPv4 interfaces: iprb0; ipbr1
Ifconfig: plumb: iprb1:
bad file number
moving address from failed IPv4 interfaces: iprb1
(couldn't move, no alternative interfaces)
This error never shows up on every system. Its intermittent. I have approx 1800 systems to put NIC cards in and I never know when this error will surface. Any ideas on how to solve/fix this error?
Thanks
Ty

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lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 9028 0 (autoclean)
parport 37088 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13364 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tulip 43584 1
crc32 3712 0 [tulip]
sg 36940 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18104 0 (autoclean)
floppy 58160 0 (autoclean)
microcode 4724 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
ide-cd 35680 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
mousedev 5524 1
hid 22212 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd 20104 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused)
usbcore 79392 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ext3 91592 2
jbd 52336 2 [ext3]
ata_piix 4100 3
libata 27780 0 [ata_piix]
sd_mod 13744 6
scsi_mod 108840 5 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi ata_piix libata sd_mod]
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2580 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2581 (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2660 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2658 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2659 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 265a (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 265b (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 265c (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2640 (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 266f (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2651 (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 266a (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b60
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
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verify
commit
exit
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Looks like time to take it all out of the case and give things a test run on the table top. Take it all apart down to the bare MB and start from scratch and see what happens.
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Try with 1 strick of memory in the slot next to the cpu.
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Using LabVIEW TCP/IP VIs, my LV application is accessing a database though a LAN, and through a second NIC, it is controlling an instrument. The instrument is connected directly to the computer NIC with a cross-over cable. I have made a permanent route for the IP address of the instrument in the IP route table. The LAN and the instrument have different subnet numbers. Using a packet sniffer, I don't see any traffic meant for the LAN going to the NIC connected to the instrument. The OS of the computer is Windows XP and the NICs are PCI cards.
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I'm running everything on one server. would like to add the blackberry
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I have two Displays, 20 and 23".
When both connected to the standard NVIDIA card in the Mac Pro, evreything is fine.
I ordered a second NVIDIA card wich I installed in slot 4, using 8 lanes for this card.
Now, when one display is connected to the standard card and the second display is connected to the second NVIDIA card, the screen of the display connected to the build in card (the 16 lanes card) does noet refresh correctly. You can not see what iMovie is displaying for example, iMovie screen is white and does not display what should be on screen.
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At this moment my second card is not usable.
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Starting in safe mode makes no difference on either Mac Pro

Just to clarify what you have: both displays are Apple? 3rd party (Dell etc)? and the 2nd NVIDIA came from Apple, right? because you do need EFI-based video (and BIOS as well for it to work in XP).
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I have two sun servers, both solaris 9, that act as firewalls.
I have installed only OS Core. The firewall software is Checkpoint.
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I have many other sun servers configured in this way that work perfectly.
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If I run, on both servers, from ok prompt:
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I would put this system on alert and make a service call with Sun, asr ( automatic system recovery ) can detect early signs that a component is failing and just clearing the disk from asr should not be the only step taken here, the disk may need to be replaced.
I am currently looking through the internal hand book for some references for you, there should be some good spectrum stuff that I can point you to, I'll update shortly.
One more thing, when you were configuring Solaris for FW-1, there are a number fo kernel parameters to change, misconfiguration of any of these parameters could be a cause for FW-1 to report errors.
On the output from netstat -rn, I wouldn't worry about that too much, if the system is a gateway for a large number of hosts it will probably have an enrty for all networks being visted by hosts on the client side.

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